Desmond Morris (British, born 1928)
Birthday Emotions
signed with monogram and dated '69' (lower left); further signed, signed with monogram, titled and dated 'BIRTHDAY EMOTIONS/Desmond Morris/JAN/69' (on board verso)
oil on board
83 x 68.5cm (32 11/16 x 26 15/16in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
With The Mayor Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, 20 April 2009
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
Knokke-le-Zoute, Keats Gallery, Desmond Morris, 9 July-11 August 1988, no. 19

Literature
P. Oakes, The Secret Surrealist, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1987, illustrated on p. 52
M. Remy, The Surrealist World of Desmond Morris, Jonathan Cape, London, 1991, p. 118
S. Levy, Desmond Morris, Analytical Catalogue Raisonné 1944-2000, Pandora, Antwerp, 2001, no. 1969/1, illustrated on p. 269

Please note that this lot is offered together with a copy of S. Levy, Desmond Morris, Analytical Catalogue Raisonné 1944-2000, Pandora, Antwerp, 2001, signed and inscribed by Desmond Morris.

The present lot was completed 24 January 1969, on Morris's forty-first birthday. The central red motif reoccurs throughout Morris's work, and symbolises intense emotion.

We are grateful to Silvano Levy for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: AR
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